Smoking a real stick like a branch?

My friends told me that they were smoking sticks and i dont do that crap nor do i plan to, ever? I was just like why in the world would you smoke a stick, like a real stick you took off from a branch, i kept telling them that it made them look really stupid and it was pointless. They said that it didnt make them look stupid, it tasted good (hard to believe) and that you couldnt get high off it, is this true because it was really stupid thing for them to do and if they could get high off of it i bet i could make them stop.